Third Sunday Write “Sweetness” Comes Closer To Fourth For September

So, yes, it was late as is this “report” insofar as the Facebook post (cf. September 10, et al.) came on September 26.  The prompt, or perhaps more accurately what I took from it, had to do with “sweetness.” Thus:

(September prompt #2) “Sweets to the Sweet”

He always said he had a sweet disposition.  Sweet, sweet, sweet.  And he loved to eat sweets.

He loved cookies the best, big sugar cookies, the kind as large as small dinner plates.  He could munch them all day.  But he liked especially to remove the flour — he accomplished this by using a special blender [image error]that reduced the cookie to its liquid components, then letting the various parts settle out into layers according to density.  Then all that was needed was to decide which was the flour level, which all the rest, siphon out the flour — rather than waste it, he’d put that into a bowl for the cat — pour the rest into rough oval shapes on a cookie sheet, and re-bake the flour-less part in the oven.  Or else, alternatively, if he felt he couldn’t wait that long, he might simply drink it out with a straw cut into a length where it would reach down to just the right level.

This second had an advantage in that it didn’t have to be chewed — he could just drink it down bypassing his teeth which saved him immensely on dentist bills.  Though it didn’t mean teeth didn’t come into his life at all, in that we live in a “dog eat dog” world.  In his case this meant that, after he’d snacked, he’d have become so sweet that vampires would gather from miles around to bite him for dessert.

Unfortunately relatively few in the Writers Guild seemed to respond to these this time, possibly because the prompts were late, or possibly just missing the immediacy of the live pre-corona face-to-face sessions, the latter of which I can appreciate as well.  But I rather like one aspect of this “virtual” format myself:  that I don’t have to respond to every prompt given, but can pick the one I think “speaks to me” the most (in itself a reasonable way to approach writing prompts), though with watch on the table still try to write quickly, getting everything down in more or less the allowed ten minutes.